We study the effects of stock market volatility on risk-taking and financial crises by constructing a cross … system, indicating that agents take more risk in periods of low risk, supporting the dictum that “stability is destabilizing." …

diversification, and how an acknowledgment of volatility clustering can enhance the quality of risk models. The analysis is carried … risk historically received more attention, especially in financial regulation, our analysis shows that volatility clusters …, risk managers, and investors seeking to understand and mitigate the risks of financial markets …

We investigate the impact of financial crises on two fundamental features of stock returns, namely, the risk … shows that both financial effects increase significantly during crises. Strikingly, the risk-return tradeoff is … international stock markets confirm the increase in the leverage effect, whereas the international evidence on the risk …

In this paper, we propose a novel approach on how to estimate systemic risk and identify its key determinants. For all … affected if the tail risk of the financial sector increases. We find that key accounting and market valuation metrics such as … risk profile of a financial institution. In contrast to earlier studies, the employed panel vector autoregression (PVAR …

(1) level and risk dynamics. The latter includes (2) tail risk and crisis probability as well as (3) the Volatility …) undercapitalized sectors (8) time-varying risk premia, and (9) the external funding premium are part of the analysis. Financial …

This paper examines how risk in trading activity can affect the volatility of asset prices. We look for this … swap spread tends to converge to a long-run level, although trading risk can sometimes cause the spread to diverge from … that level. -- convergence trading ; interest rate swaps ; swap spread ; repurchase contracts ; trading risk ; volatility …